Usually,
when politicians discover a large voting bloc that has no champion, they
move in like gold prospectors with a fever in their heads. Tap that bloc;
mine it; use it.

However,
in the case of millions of Americans who passionately want to manage their
own health without government interference, who want access to the full
range of nutritional supplements and unlimited access to alternative practitioners,
there is dead silence in Washington.

Why?

First,
few politicians are willing to challenge the agenda of the pharmaceutical
companies (drug everybody from cradle to grave). Second, these health-freedom
advocates are radical decentralists—which means they know how it
feels to be denied the right to take care of their own bodies. They have
met the enemy and they know how it operates on a very personal level.

There
is no chance politicians will be able to finesse these voters or make
empty promises to them or wow them with “task forces” created
to “study problems.” Health-freedom folks are too smart for
any of that nonsense.

They
want unbridled freedom. They want, for example, to be able to say no to
vaccines for their children without having to walk the gauntlet of officials
who try to dissuade and intimidate and threaten them.

They
want to find alternative treatments for cancer in many cases, and cancer
happens to be one of those tightly guarded provinces, where big money
and big government insist on radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery, come
hell or high water.

If politicians
courted health-freedom people, they'd be exposing themselves to vicious
attacks from the medical/government axis and its media dupes.

They'd
be opening the door to the notion that people can really choose their
own solutions, despite “the best science” and the authoritarian
pronouncements of doctors, who are modern priests in white coats wielding
hypnotic power.

In other
words, FREEDOM would become the top issue and the trumping issue all the
way across the board—and very few politicians of either party want
to step out into that world.

It's
too raw, too real, too much about naked choice.

That's
why, even as states try to nullify ObamaCare, you don't hear conversation
about how the Dept. of Health and Human Services is poised to compose
a list of permitted medical treatments and will eventually outlaw alternative
options.

See
if you can find, even among the most conservative legislators recently
elected to office in the Republican landslide, any who speak up about
health freedom.

Good
luck.

It remains
a taboo in the halls of Congress.

This
means that individuals will have to carry the burden themselves. They
will have to speak out and keep speaking out. They will have to challenge
government repression on the most fundamental level. They will have to
make this issue electric.

In doing
so, they will be accused of everything under the sun. They will be called
anti-science Luddites, and religious crazies, and even killers of their
own children.

Notice
that I'm not advocating the wholesale rejection of modern medicine; I'm
saying every individual has the right and the freedom to choose to how
to manage his own health. Period. That right takes precedence over anyone's
idea of science or “best evidence.”

On that
basis, the fight can be won, in the long run. On any other basis, defeat
is certain.

I have
lobbied for the formation of a PR agency, funded by nutritional companies,
that would widely disseminate information about the health benefits of
supplements and the false science behind many conventional medical treatments—and
the response has been zero. These companies have no stomach for such a
campaign. They, too, fear health freedom, in their own way. They continue
to exist in a twilight zone of hope and fantasy. “Maybe the government
will ignore us and let us go on doing business.”

In 1994,
when I ran for a Congressional seat in the 29th District (Los Angeles),
on a platform of health freedom, I gained profound knowledge about who
would come out of the woodwork to offer help and who would stay in the
shadows. The results, in that regard, were quite sobering. One or two
nutritional companies supported me. The rest stayed away.

When
the inessentials are stripped away and you are talking about sheer freedom,
and when people realize this is your sole concern, they tend to retreat
and find other things to do. On the one hand, they will admit that their
own health is a top concern, but they won't come out and fight for the
right to pursue it according to their own dictates. It's a strange landscape.

Call
me crazy, but I believe a presidential candidate, fully funded, who argued
vigorously and widely for health freedom (and other freedoms), could win
an election, even in this day and age.

But
we are not about to test that hypothesis, because the fear of health freedom
is too deep.

And
this tells us something.

It tells
us we are in the right pew. We are mining a red-hot idea. We're discovering
a lever and a fulcrum that could move the nation.

Back
in 1994, I saw passion about politics that far exceeded anything I'd ever
run into before. The health-freedom supporters who emerged from their
homes were battle-tested veterans in a war that, out of media range, had
been going on for decades. They carried a revolutionary spirit of outrage.
They weren't opting for New Age rainbows and pastel prophecies. They had
a spirit toward which the Founders would have tipped their hats.

I've
learned it's never too late for freedom, because freedom is not part of
ordinary time. It's stands above the passage of events. It is. It's waiting.

The
current trigger is this shuck-and-jive ObamaCare program. This sanctimonious
share-and-care sop. Behind it is the plan to force all Americans into
a straitjacket of pharmaceutical insanity.

That's
what's up the road.

But
we can take other roads.

If we
will.

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Neither
mainstream political party will ever admit that the government/pharmaceutical
axis is a perfect example of a fascist operation. Neither party will ever
state, in clear terms, that every citizen has the right to define and
follow his own dictates in managing his health. They are afraid to touch
that electric core.

Jon
Rappoport has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years. Nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize early in his career, Jon has published articles on
medical fraud, politics, alternative health, and sports in LA Weekly,
CBS Healthwatch, Spin, Stern, and other magazines and newspapers in the
US and Europe.

He
is the is author of several books, including The Secret Behind Secret
Societies and The Magic Agent (a novel).

Jon
is the author of a new course for home schoolers, LOGIC AND ANALYSIS.

In 1994, when I ran
for a Congressional seat in the 29th District (Los Angeles), on a platform
of health freedom, I gained profound knowledge about who would come out
of the woodwork to offer help and who would stay in the shadows.